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Student Debt Cuts Home Purchase Power By 19%, Something To Think About
As a Realtor and Parents of a high school senior, my wife and I had no idea we would be offsetting our child's ability to purchase a home  by 19%, when we encouraged him to go off to college (even with the difference in income that education may have earned him).
Without a doubt as parents our intentions are always the best, but sometimes as good as our intentions are, we miss the mark! Usually our children recover from our mistakes in a day or two, and all is good.
But Student Debt is a whole new monster, we could end up handicapping our children, long after they graduate from college, start their own family - even with an offset in income (which isn't always the case) and we do this....  with  all the best intentions in the world. 
Certainly not bashing a college education, many careers require it, but we wanted to investigate other options....
Here are just a few:  "Home College" (don’t try this one at home-I wasn’t allowed to join the conversation again for 20 minutes), Community college (good option - find out if college is really for them?),  no schooling (worse than home schooling, don’t try this one either) Trade school - excellent option, Military another excellent option, and ... more

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